Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... Keltic language is still spoken . Welsh is a Keltic dialect ; so is Manx ; so is the native Irish , or Erse ; so is the dialect of the Highlands of Scot- land ' . If we wish to have a notion of the sort of language which an ancient ...
... Keltic language is still spoken . Welsh is a Keltic dialect ; so is Manx ; so is the native Irish , or Erse ; so is the dialect of the Highlands of Scot- land ' . If we wish to have a notion of the sort of language which an ancient ...
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... Their speech was akin to Dutch , and it was the parent of our own . The Britons were a Keltic race , and their language was as different from the language of their Saxon conquerors as the Welsh language of I - 2 HISTORICAL SURVEY . 3.
... Their speech was akin to Dutch , and it was the parent of our own . The Britons were a Keltic race , and their language was as different from the language of their Saxon conquerors as the Welsh language of I - 2 HISTORICAL SURVEY . 3.
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... Keltic race , the Britons ? They were driven into the west and the north of the island , -into Devon and Cornwall , into Wales , into West- moreland and Cumberland . Those who remained in the parts 4 ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... Keltic race , the Britons ? They were driven into the west and the north of the island , -into Devon and Cornwall , into Wales , into West- moreland and Cumberland . Those who remained in the parts 4 ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... Keltic language was spoken only amongst themselves . Henceforth the language of the country was English . 6. Anglo - Saxon . The term Anglo - Saxon has a twofold applica- tion , ( 1 ) to people , ( 2 ) to language . ( 1 ) Whether the ...
... Keltic language was spoken only amongst themselves . Henceforth the language of the country was English . 6. Anglo - Saxon . The term Anglo - Saxon has a twofold applica- tion , ( 1 ) to people , ( 2 ) to language . ( 1 ) Whether the ...
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... Keltic , for the Gauls were a Keltic race , though they adopted the speech of their Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in disguise . The sixteenth Learning , or The capture 10 ...
... Keltic , for the Gauls were a Keltic race , though they adopted the speech of their Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in disguise . The sixteenth Learning , or The capture 10 ...
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